Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court found an 88-year-old former boxer not guilty on Thursday after a retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder, reversing a decision that made him the world’s longest-serving death row inmate. Iwao Hakamada’s acquittal by the Shizuoka District Court makes him the fifth death row inmate to be found
Continue ReadingBy Hilary Whiteman, CNN (CNN) — When award-winning actress Meryl Streep spoke on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly about cats, squirrels and birds, she wasn’t making a point about hunters and prey. She was comparing all three with women and girls in Afghanistan – and pointing out that the animals have more
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Kids say the darndest things — especially if you’re discussing serious topics like politics, religion or the climate crisis. CNN asked 10-year-olds about the November election and received jarring responses on how they view the candidates and the country’s political landscape. Here’s what else you need to know
Continue ReadingAssociated Press OceanGate co-founder Stockton Rush said the carbon fiber hull used in an experimental submersible that imploded en route to the wreckage of the Titanic was developed with help of NASA and aerospace manufacturers. But a NASA official testified Thursday that the space agency actually had little involvement. A NASA official testified that NASA
Continue ReadingHONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong welcomed a new pair of giant pandas gifted by Beijing on Thursday with a lavish ceremony, raising hopes for a boost to the city’s tourism. An An and Ke Ke are the third pair of giant pandas to be sent to the city from mainland China since the former
Continue ReadingAssociated Press McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for his role in the 1992 fatal shooting of a convenience store owner after the governor again rejected a recommendation from the state’s parole board to spare a death row inmate’s life. Emmanuel Littlejohn, 52, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A judge heard court arguments in the possible dismissal of a criminal conviction against a movie armorer in the shooting death of a cinematographer by actor Alec Baldwin, and says she’ll release a ruling next week. At a court hearing Thursday, defense counsel for Hannah Gutierrez-Reed alleged that
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CRAWFORDVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Hurricane Helene made landfall Thursday night in northwestern Florida as a Category 4 storm as forecasters warned that the enormous system could create a “nightmare” storm surge and bring dangerous winds and rain across much of the southeastern U.S. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Helene roared ashore
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York appeals court panel appeared receptive Thursday to potentially overturning or reducing a civil fraud judgment that stands to cost Donald Trump nearly $500 million. One judge called the former president’s penalty “troubling” and wondered if the state’s policing of private business transactions amounted to “deterrence” or
Continue ReadingAssociated Press VIENNA (AP) — Austria’s far-right Freedom Party could win a national election for the first time when Austria votes on Sunday. It is tapping into voters’ anxieties about immigration, inflation, Ukraine and other concerns following recent gains for the hard right elsewhere in Europe. Herbert Kickl, a former interior minister and longtime campaign
Continue ReadingAP National Political Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — There’s an unlikely star in Kamala Harris’ fight to make history in North Carolina: Mark Robinson, the state’s scandal-plagued candidate for governor. As of this week, Robinson is featured in Harris volunteers’ conversations with voters on the phone and at the doorways. Democrats wave signs bearing his
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama used nitrogen gas Thursday to execute a man convicted of killing three people in back-to-back workplace shootings, the second time the method that has generated debate about its humaneness has been used in the country Alan Eugene Miller, 59, was pronounced dead at 6:38 p.m. local time at
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of a bipartisan House task force investigating the Trump assassination attempts emphasized during their first hearing Thursday that the Secret Service, not local authorities, was responsible for the failures in planning and communications that led to a gunman being able to open fire on former President Donald Trump in
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Outreach workers in San Francisco visit homeless people living in tents to match them with shelter. But it’s not a straightforward process. San Francisco has more shelter beds than ever before and a mayor who says she’s fed up with people living outdoors when they’ve been offered a bed.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s new drug czar has a very personal reason for wanting to end the state’s opioid crisis: He was once addicted to prescription painkillers himself. Dr. Stephen Loyd, who has been sober for 20 years, started as West Virginia’s Office of Drug Control Policy director last month. Loyd
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With American support for Ukraine at a partisan crossroads, Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday slammed suggestions that Kyiv should cede territory for the sake of peace with Moscow as “dangerous and unacceptable.” The Democratic presidential nominee spoke alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as she unleashed the veiled criticism of
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Old newspaper boxes are being repurposed into containers that distribute Narcan, an emergency treatment to reverse drug overdoses. The boxes have proliferated nationwide since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the sale of naloxone without a prescription. They are appearing in neighborhoods, in front of hospitals, health departments
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Launchpad Strategies, incorporated less than a year ago, has received $15 million from Donald Trump’s election fundraising machine. Campaign finance experts say it was built for anonymity and is the latest example of how the Trump campaign has used secretive businesses to obscure its spending from the public. An Associated
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Dozens of Georgians stood in tearful silence in a central square near parliament last week to mourn Kesaria Abramidze, a transgender actor and model who was stabbed to death the previous day in her apartment. Alongside flowers and candles, some carried banners that read, “Hate kills.” Some in the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are more likely to believe that being a woman will hurt Kamala Harris’ chances in the November election, compared to eight years ago when Hillary Clinton was running. And they are more likely to believe that Donald Trump’s gender will help him. A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC
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